Saturday, May 31, 2008

COMMENTS: Billingsley looks to keep the Dodgers' winning streak alive (okay, it's only a one-game streak, but when you've lost six of the last eight, you'll take it), and the Dodgers try and see if their nine-run outburst last night carries any momentum into this afternoon's game. Given Joe Torre's penchant for mixing up the lineup, momentum will likely be lost. But at least we're going up against the Mets' version of Mark Hendrickson (a tall (6'7") pitcher with a losing record (6.08 ERA in May)). Maybe the Dodgers can keep their bats in with Pelfrey? (Wow, that was a stretch of a pun. Sorry.)

I'm pretty aware he's not even hitting as he should. He's made suffer throughout the years by playing brilliantly in winter baseball, winning a lot of championships, hitting double-walk off doubles right in front of my eyes, etc (because he seems to be very good at the Luis Aparicio).

You could argue it's winter baseball, but venezuelan people are very passionate and knowledgeable about baseball and sometimes we're as critical and demanding audience as Philadelphia and New York. He's carried himself in such situations.

look what he did last January, on the third game of the final, playing in the left field, robbing a home run to the greatest hitter in the venezuelan winter baseball in the last twenty years, Robert Perez: